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It’s about to get very Hitchcocky around here.

I’ve never found anything particularly Halloweeny about Alfred Hitchcock. You won’t find many kids dressing up as Jimmy Stewart from Vertigo, and Hitch’s mastery of craft and thematic concerns have always transcended the horror genre for me. But any excuse to revisit his best work on the big screen is always welcome, and that’s what we get with the Angelika’s annual Hitchcocktober series.

There’s more for Hitchcock fans to look out for as well. The Texas Theater will show Vertigo, freshly minted as the Greatest Film Ever,this weekend. Then on Nov. 23, Fox Searchlight is scheduled to release Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins as The Man and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh. The film chronicles the making of the movie that came closest to pure horror in the Hitchcock catalog: Psycho. Oddly enough, that one won’t be showing during Hitchcocktober.

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